Whatever.com

Sunday, August 02, 2015

Good morning. A few minutes ago, I met with his excellency, the Governor
General, and he has agreed to my request that parliament be dissolved.
In accordance with our commitment to a fixed election date, the next
general election will be held as prescribed by law. As it is my
intention to begin campaign-related activities, as is also the case for
the other party leaders,… it is important that these campaigns be funded
by the parties themselves rather than taxpayers. It is also appropriate
that Canadians have the time to consider the alternatives before them,…
because this is an election about leadership on the big issues, the
issues that affect us all: Our economy, and our nation’s security. It is
an election about who will protect our economy, in a period of ongoing
global instability, and secure Canada’s future prosperity. And it is an
election about who is best-equipped to make the tough calls to keep our
country safe.

It was expected so I have no idea why the otherpartieset al have wet their shorties over this.

Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, maintains
that she did not send classified materials using a personal email
account and an Internet server kept at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
But a new batch of correspondence,
released by the State Department Friday afternoon, shows that she and
her aides did share sensitive information — including potential
vulnerabilities in American diplomatic facilities overseas — over her
private network.

There are three broad reasons for Ankara’s change of heart. The first is
Turkey’s deteriorating relations with the United States. Second, Ankara
was alarmed by increasing U.S. cooperation with Syrian Kurds, which was
growing deeper with every day that Turkey refused to cooperate with
Washington. And finally, the Turks realized that IS had become a
formidable entity potentially representing a threat to them as well.

The head pastor of
one of Canada's largest congregations who has been detained by North
Korea since February appeared before media in Pyongyang and confessed to
crimes aimed at overthrowing the state, the North's official news
agency said on Friday.

The KCNA news agency said Hyeon Soo Lim, of the
3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, "honestly
admitted to all crimes" he was accused of committing.

KCNA quoted Lim as telling a news conference he had
traveled to North Korea in the guise of humanitarian work and gathered
information that he used in sermons outside the country in a bid to
drive the regime to a collapse "with the love of God."

His purpose was to "overturn its social system by
taking advantage of the hostile policy against it sought by the South
Korean authorities and set up a base for building a religious state,"
KCNA quoted him as saying.

Lim also said he
worked with South Korean and U.S. authorities to "lure and abduct" North
Koreans in a campaign of aiding defectors from the country, KCNA said.

A day after the high-profile vote which awarded Beijing the 2022 Winter
Games, International Olympic Committee members dealt Saturday with
issues affecting the next two Summer Games — severe water pollution in
Rio de Janeiro and the fuss over Tokyo's choice of emblem.

Harper is expected to call an election Sunday for Oct. 19
— setting off the longest Canadian election campaign in modern times.
The Conservatives' Fair Elections Act provides for higher spending
limits in longer campaigns, and Harper's party has more cash on hand
than the opposition parties combined.

Trudeau told CBC Radio's The
House that Harper has "changed the rules so that he's able to spend more
money than we've ever had in an election."

As social media exploded with
outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing
of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went
largely unnoticed in the animal's native Zimbabwe.

"What lion?" acting
information minister Prisca Mupfumira asked in response to a request for
comment about Cecil, who was at that moment topping global news
bulletins and generating reams of abuse for his killer on websites in
the United States and Europe. ....

"Why are the Americans more concerned than us?" said Joseph Mabuwa, a
33-year-old father-of-two cleaning his car in the centre of the capital.
"We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and
elephants in Hwange."

Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood was featured in Tuesday’s
video release showing the dissection of a recently killed baby boy. In
the video, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Vice President and Medical
Director Savita Ginde appeared to negotiate the sale of baby parts.

On Wednesday, Alliance Defending Freedom filed a complaint
with Colorado against a Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood abortionist
and another employee. The two employees, according to ADF, failed to
comply with Colorado law when they failed to report the sexual abuse of a
13-year-old girl, performing an abortion on her without telling her
parents, and returning her to the custody of the sexual predator who
brought her for an abortion. He continued to sexually abuse her.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Ontario's Liberals
waded into the looming federal election Thursday, accusing Prime
Minister Stephen Harper of abandoning workers in the province by
refusing to co-operate on a new provincial pension plan.

Ottawa
has warned the province it will not make any legislative changes to
treat the proposed Ontario Retirement Pension Plan like the Canada
Pension Plan, and would provide no federal help to collect contributions
or administer the scheme.

"This is a cynical, partisan stunt,
executed on the eve of a federal election campaign," said Ontario
Finance Minister Charles Sousa. "He's slapping the face of Ontarians by
taking the actions that he's doing today, and that's uncalled for."

Two-thirds
of Ontario workers do not have a workplace pension, and Harper knows
that CPP payments averaging $6,900 a year will not provide adequate
retirement income, added Sousa. However, Harper will get a pension of
$191,000 a year when he leaves office, he said.

A former Islamic State militant recently spoke with NBC news about his experience fighting with the group in Syria — and why he surrendered after just three days on the frontlines.

The man, a 24-year-old single father and college dropout who
traveled from New York back to his native Turkey, told NBC what has
become a familiar story. Socially isolated and lacking meaning in his
life, he was seduced by the jihadis' promise of a salary, a house, and a
wife.

"My life was hard and nobody liked me," the man, who insisted on
anonymity, said while crying. "I didn't have many friends. I was on the
internet a lot and playing games."

This is a common profile among those recruited by the Islamic State,
also known as ISIS or ISIL, who are often young men (and women) seeking purpose and identity.
They are drawn to ISIS' promise of community, along with the glory of
potential martyrdom. ISIS' inclusive rhetoric, combined with its
social-media prowess, has allowed the group to recruit more foreigners
to its ranks than any other modern jihadist group.

Firsthand accounts of the militants' brutality from those who have
fought with ISIS, such as the one given by the Turkish-American recruit,
are still relatively rare, even though an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters have joined the group.

"They told us, 'When you capture someone, you will behead them,'" he
said. "But as for me, I have never even beheaded a chicken … It is not
easy … I can't do that."

He said he was also instructed to throw homosexuals off of tall
buildings and kill female adulterers. He said he decided to leave ISIS
after an airstrike killed six of his fellow fighters in the Syrian
border town of Tal Abyad.

"I got scared because in my whole
life I hadn't seen anything like this," he told NBC. "And since I was
scared, I threw my pistol away and my legs couldn't hold me."

I would like to talk about why I don't care and why I hope he spends whatever remains of his sad, little life in some terrible place.

The post-modern West has done a terrific job of removing any moral centre it should have. Suddenly, morality becomes a matter of what is right at the moment and no absolute principle or being gives value and meaning to one's life and actions. One finds one's self in a world where feelings replace moral codes and laws and where manufactured crusades take precedence over real problems that require fortitude, both ethical and physical, to overcome.

Take this guy.

He first elicits sympathy for his terrible decision by saying that his life had taken a horrible turn. The writer of the article doesn't even dispute that as a convenient reason. Fully grown men were simply unwitting victims of life and an ideology no one will acknowledge is part of the problem in the first place. THAT is why he went overseas to join fellow Islamists in running native populations out of their homes, crucifying Christians, raping women and children, destroying artefacts and burning alive fighter pilots.

Excuse me if I find this less than convincing.

This chump isn't a victim of circumstance. He was a willing participant in evil. If he were truly repentant, he wouldn't find excuses for his actions but accept fault and, as is pointed out, that his only way out is death.

Researchers at Osaka
University in Japan claim to have fired the world’s most powerful
laser, prompting comparisons to the planet-destroying Death Star laser
in Star Wars.

While the powerful laser beam only lasted for a
trillionth of a second, it’s power was measured as 2 petawatts or 2
quadrillion watts.

To put that into context, Popular Science
explains that in 2013, a drone was shot down from 2km away using a
laser with just 50kilowatts (50,000 watts) of power. Until now, the most
powerful laser was a 1-petawatt device at the University of Austin in
Texas.

The device that created
the ‘Death Star’-like beam - the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments
(LFEX) - is just over 90m long and takes up an entire room, making it
unlikely that we’ll see it mounted on a vehicle or other mobile
structure any time soon.

Justin Trudeau, the man who was
supposed to lead Canada's Liberals out of the political wilderness, has
instead sunk to third place just months from an election, with some in
his party complaining he is missing in action.

Born to a sitting prime minister and raised at the foot
of power, he presents himself as a kinder, more approachable
alternative to Prime Minister Stephen Harper after nine years of rule by
the right-leaning Conservatives and three straight Liberal defeats.

But more than two years into his leadership of the
once-powerful centrist Liberals, the 43-year-old father of three has
struggled to define himself and been labeled by opponents as unready for
office despite his prized political pedigree.

Some critics complain Trudeau, son of the late Pierre
Trudeau, appears unwilling to go on the road and repeat his message
enough times for it to sink in before the Oct. 19 vote.

Former Liberal
legislator Dennis Mills, who worked for Trudeau's father - prime
minister for 15 years ending in 1984 - took aim at Trudeau's team,
saying his handlers needed to be more aggressive.

"All these photo ops
are nice, but I think we haven't really seen the inner strength and the
passion of the man, and that's because he hasn't been in a situation
where that's been allowed to come out," Mills said.

First Nations bands
that have not filed their financial statements for 2014-15 by Wednesday
at midnight will risk having federal funding for non-essential services
cut beginning Sept. 1, warns Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard
Valcourt.

Under a new law which came
into effect one year ago, First Nations have to submit to the Canadian
government their audited financial statements for the past fiscal year,
including the salaries and expenses of their chiefs and councillors.

While 98 per cent of bands complied with the First Nations Financial
Transparency Act last year, CBC News reported Monday that the federal
government has taken eight bands to court in a bid to force them to
comply. Four other bands are said to be co-operating with the government
to meet the requirements.

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would
set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible
for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago.

British terrorist
“Jihadi John” has reportedly left the Islamic State (aka ISIS) group,
fearing for his life after being identified six months earlier as a
Kuwaiti-born Londoner from a well-to-do family.

Jihadi John left
because the terrorist organization might drop him "like a stone or worse
if they feel he is no longer of any use to them," according to a source
for the British news outlet, the Daily Express.

The Daily Express report has not been confirmed by government sources or other news outlets.Born Mohammed Emwazi, he initially gained
international notoriety both personally, and for the terrorist
organization, after a video was released by Islamic State in August
2014, showing him beheading American journalist James Foley.

"We have never been prouder of our son Jim," Diane Foley wrote on her son’s Facebook
page who was killed after two years in captivity. "He gave his life
trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people."

Mr.
Emwazi is now wanted for murder by the United States and Britain for
killings journalists and aid workers Foley, Stephen Sotloff, David
Haines, Alan Henning, and Peter Kassig, among others. The last video
that the Kuwaiti-born 26-year-old was featured in depicted the beheading
of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto
over six months ago. The Daily Express speculates that Emwazi may be
working with "a less well-known jihadist group somewhere in Syria, to
try to keep a low profile."

Israeli bulldozers began demolishing a contested housing complex in a
West Bank settlement on Wednesday as the prime minister's office
announced the "immediate construction" of some 300 new units at another
location in the same settlement and advanced plans for about 500 new
units in east Jerusalem.

Two dads who hadhoped to bring a baby daughter hometo
Spain from Thailand after she was born there via surrogate six months
ago have instead been stranded in Bangkok with her ever since, as the
birth mom has changed her mind. Now the fates of the American biological
father, Gordon “Bud” Lake, his Spanish husband, Manuel Santos, the
surrogate mom, Patidta Kusolsang, and baby Carmen are in the hands of a
Thai court, which will hold a hearing on the custody matter on Thursday.

The dads, who live in Valencia, believe Kusolsang changed her mind because she found out that they are gay.

“For the last six months,
we have been stuck in Thailand, faced with the possibility of losing our
jobs and our house back in the U.S. because we cannot leave. If we
leave, we risk the greatest loss of all — our beautiful baby daughter,
Carmen,” they write on acrowdfunding pagefor their legal expenses (which has brought in nearly $30,000 so far), notingon Facebookthat
they have already wiped out their savings on housing, school for their
2-year-old son (who is with them in Thailand), visa renewals, and food.
“All this because our surrogate doesn’t want Carmen to be raised by gay
parents, and the law that should give me full parental powers excludes
me from obtaining them because I am gay.”

If you want to pretend to be a family, don't act shocked when an incubator et al might find that problematic.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Recruiting Eve Adams looked like an
inexplicable plan for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in February, when the
party held a marginal lead in the polls. By the time Sunday’s nomination
meeting was over, it seemed like self-harm.

The
Liberals of Eglinton-Lawrence rebuffed Ms. Adams’s bid to run for the
party there, and at least symbolically, they rebuked Mr. Trudeau. This
comes at a time when the Liberals, down in the polls, already seem to be
sliding, and in a way that raises questions about Mr. Trudeau’s
judgment.

How embarrassing for Justin Trudeau who must be baffled as to why people refused his hand-picked wonder. Anyone whose arrogance (and the Liberal Party is crammed to the rafters with such people) is the only thing that guides one's decision-making deserves such failure.

I don't recall any other foreign leaders moaning about squabbles back home particularly when they could be a force for good. But, then again, most world leaders have some modicum of self-awareness and gravity about them.

At a press conference
with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama said that as a half-black
American, he knew how painful it was to be treated differently and that
Kenyans should stop causing pain for Kenyan homosexuals by treating them
as if they were somehow, you know, different. Obama’s apparent
goal is to see fit that everyone—no matter his, her, or its sexual
orientation—experiences an equal level of pain.

In the most diplomatic manner imaginable, Kenyatta told Obama to go
get fucked by a tree stump. He said his countrymen had more pressing
concerns than gay rights, which he called a “non-issue.” He also implied
that for Obama to meddle in Kenyan culture would be a fool’s errand:
“It’s very difficult for us to impose on people that which they
themselves do not accept.” ...But it seems like the Africans, God bless ‘em, are tired of being
lectured by white Western progressives who seek not to truly help them,
but only to ensnare them in their own neurotic web of guilt-laden
psychodrama. Your average African peasant living on a diet of five
peanuts and two dried lentils a week simply doesn’t have time for such
trifles. When you’re frantically searching for a sip of water so you
don’t dry up into human jerky and then get eaten by fellow villagers,
gay rights suddenly don’t seem so urgent.

Great Danes were once thought to ward away
ghosts and evil spirits, which was why Scooby was the perfect companion
for those meddling kids. While that may not have been on the cartoon
creators' minds while they were developing characters, there was a lot of debate about Scooby’s breed during the show’s conception.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Almost 500 years after the fact, citizens of Ireland are finally
allowed to freely criticize the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne
Boleyn.

In 1533, citizens were probably plenty angry about the union. After all, Henry changed the entire religion
of England in order to annul his 18-year marriage to Catherine of
Aragon (and after Pope Clement VII excommunicated him). Henry wasn't
particularly interested in hearing anyone's negative feelings about his
new special someone—so he made sure no one expressed them.

With a new piece of legislation called the Statute Law Revision Bill,
Ireland recently repealed 5,782 laws that are no longer necessary (or
relevant). The statute served to overturn 800 years worth of laws that,
according to Simon Harris, the Irish Minister of State for Public
Expenditure and Reform, serve "no purposes whatsoever other than to
cloud and confuse those trying to read the statute book."

In addition to finally being able to trash talk Anne Boleyn, the
Irish no longer have to spend the first Wednesday of the month fasting
(1665) and are now allowed to openly eat both oatmeal and potatoes, even
if said eaters aren't of "lower orders" (1817).

I'm informed that your Commission (via your proxy) considers the word "crazy" an insult. ...You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As
they say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with
instructions printed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I
would rather kiss the Law Society of Alberta than be seen with you.

You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little
worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a
cad, and a weasel. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour
lemon. ...It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone
that the other stones make fun of. So stupid that you have traveled far
beyond stupid as we know it and into a new dimension of stupid.
Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed. Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to a
singularity where even the stupons have collapsed into stuponium. Stupid
so dense that no intelligence can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing
hot midday sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one minute
than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It cannot be
possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid. This
is a primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. A pure
extract of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws of
nature.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify Oct. 22 before the House
committee investigating the deaths of four Americans in the 2012 attacks
in Benghazi, Libya, her presidential campaign said Saturday.

The committee did not immediately confirm the date for the former secretary of state’s appearance.

Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the Democratic candidate’s
testimony will be public. Clinton’s lawyers and the Republican-led
committee have been negotiating over the terms under which she might
appeal before the committee.

Terms, my @$$. She can tell the truth or run her presidential campaign behind bars.

Who cares what some white communist Islamist-sympathiser like Obama thinks, anyway? The world does not revolve around cakes for gay weddings but people are awfully worried about those roving bands of well-armed lone wolves who rape children and throw homosexuals off of roofs.

“These documents that we had to force out of the IRS prove that the
agency used donor lists to audit supporters of organizations engaged in
First Amendment-protected lawful political speech. And the snarky
comments about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the obsession with Karl
Rove’s Crossroads GPD show that the IRS was targeting critics of the
Obama administration.”

In a 19-minute speech on the Senate floor today, Senator Ted Cruz
(R-Tex.) accused his fellow Republican and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) of repeating a “simple lie”
about a deal for reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, and for
ignoring amendments on issues that Americans truly care about, such as
the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

“There are a host of amendments that the American people are focused on, things like defunding Planned Parenthood, after the gruesome video,” which came out this week and last week, said Sen. Cruz.

But
“the Majority Leader doesn’t want to vote on that,” said Cruz. “That’s
actually something the American people are focused on.”

Pope Francis on Sunday denounced what he calls the “great powers” of
the world for failing to act when there was intelligence indicating
Jews, Christians, homosexuals and others were being transported to death
camps in Europe during the Second World War.

He also decried the deaths of Christians in concentration camps in Russia under the Stalin dictatorship, which followed the war.

The pope’s harsh assessments came in impromptu remarks during his
visit to Turin, northern Italy, when he told young people he understands
how they find it hard to trust the world.

“The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the
trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the
Jews, and also the Christians, and also the Roma, also the
homosexuals,” Francis said, citing the death camp in Poland. “Tell me,
why didn’t they bomb” those railroad routes?

Lamenting the cynicism of world players in the 1930s and 1940s, Francis said: “the great powers divided up Europe like a cake.”

He also cited what he called the “great tragedy of Armenia” in the
last century. “So many died. I don’t know the figure, more than a
million, certainly. But where were the great powers then? They were
looking the other way,” the pope said.

“Teachers will provide video demonstration of a physical activity or
sport, then students will practice those skills and build their own
video portfolios to document their progress and display mastery,” a press release posted by the N.C. Department of Instruction explains.

The online gym class will provide
those students enrolled in the virtual school with a well-rounded
education, says Karen Creech, an instructional director.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said Thursday that his party has always seen the defeat of the Conservatives as a priority.

"We
know that they've done a lot of harm, and we want to start repairing
the damage that (Harper's) done," Mulcair said from Amherstburg, Ont.,
where he stopped as part of an eight-day tour.

"We've always
worked with others in the past, but every time I've raised this prospect
with Justin Trudeau, he's slammed the door on it."

The Liberal
leader did that again on Thursday when asked in Winnipeg about the
possibility of a formal coalition with the New Democrats.

"Although
of course we are open to working with all parties in the House to pass
good legislation and to ensure that Canadians' interests are served,
there will be no formal coalition with the NDP," Trudeau said.

(Sidebar: it should be noted that Justin Trudeau says a lot of things and then does something else.)

It is what one calls "hedging one's bets". The Liberals might play it cool and pretend that their political differences are far too great to form a coalition with the NDP (some poor attempt at a scare tactic for both the Tories and the voters) but really their policies are not vastly different and desperation makes strange bed-fellows. As the election draws nearer, the likelihood of a coalition will be greater. Any attempt to unseat Harper is better than none at all.

Instead of calling the crazy human rights commissions and their kangaroo court form of justice crazy, use the adjectives "insane", "morally corrupt", "fascist", "paranoid", "thin-skinned" and "pompous". These words may expose the human rights commission to ridicule but there is nothing sane or useful about it, anyway.

President Obama won’t allow Congress to review two key aspects of
the Iranian Nuclear deal, Republican lawmakers learned from
international partners last week.

Under the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the
International Atomic Energy Agency would negotiate separately with Iran
about the inspection of a facility long-suspected of being used to
research long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

“The Obama administration has failed to make public separate side deals
that have been struck for the ‘inspection’ of one of the most important
nuclear sites—the Parchin military complex,” said Representative Mike
Pompeo (R., Kan.) in a statement Tuesday. “Not only does this violate
the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, it is asking Congress to agree to
a deal that it cannot review.”

The IAEA has been trying to gain access to the Parchin site since 2005,
but Iran has refused, even as it apparently demolished various parts of
the complex. “The hardliners do not want to grant any concessions unless
Iran is suitably rewarded,” International Institute for Strategic
Studies director Mark Fitzpatrick told the BBC in 2014, after reports
emerged of explosions at the base.

The terms of the current agreement wouldn’t allow Congress to
review any concessions the IAEA makes to get into the site. “Even
members of Congress who are sympathetic to this deal cannot and must not
accept a deal we aren’t even aware of,” said Pompeo.

Fittingly, our story begins with a Chinese textile company
that made prison uniforms. We don’t ordinarily think of Chinese prison-garment
workers as overpaid, but then, some North Korean officials paid them a visit.
The officials knew of a derelict factory in the extreme northeast of
the workers’ paradise, where women would work 12 hours a day for 30 kilograms
of rice a month. …

However, just one month after start of operations a major
problem arose. The payment of white rice was not made as promised. Most of the
angry female workers refused to come to work.

The white rice for the “monthly wage payments” was to be
brought in by the Chinese company, then handed over to the workers via the
county officials. That was the agreement. However, the officials first withheld
about half of the rice as “army rice” before paying the workers. That’s what
made the workers so angry.

The officers, in a panic, visited the homes of the
workers to encourage them to come to work.

“The female workers sent the officers packing, saying,
‘How can you expect us to come to work when you will not pay us properly? We
will starve!’ In North Korea today, if promises are not kept, any one will
leave the workplace at the factory in the same way” …

If labor organizations proliferated throughout North Korea,
they could eventually organize nationwide work stoppages and strikes. Here is
an incident where a clandestine labor organization formed locally and
spontaneously. It isn’t hard to believe that with a little support, more North
Koreans at other factories and mines would organize, too.

In the 1930s, Frank Schutt, General Manager of the Peabody Hotel,
thought it would be funny to have ducks in the hotel’s gigantic Italian
marble fountain. So he brought in three small ducks from his personal
flock to see how people reacted. The ducks were a hit, so they were soon
replaced with five stately Mallards from a nearby farm.

The ducks lived on the roof in a modest
roost, but getting the ducks to and from the fountain was not an easy
process. That is until 1940, when a bellman, Edward Pembroke, a former
circus trainer, offered to teach the ducks to walk to the fountain, thus
becoming the first Peabody Duckmaster, a post he held until his
retirement in 1991. Even after all these years, Pembroke’s routine has
remained unchanged to this day.